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Peer reviewedColas, Annie – Journal of Child Language, 1999
Examined how French mothers' gestures and prosody contributed to their infants' conversational competence, investigating how they used ostensive marking to point out common references at different developmental stages. Longitudinal observations of mother/infant dyads during free play at three developmental stages indicated that mothers adapted…
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Development, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages)
